Have you felt the slight bit of insanity coming through my writing lately? With two kids, a blog, and a move on the agenda, these days I’m looking for any way that I can to simplify bits and pieces of the chaos.

I’m looking for ways to eliminate every bit of clutter in my life, because it also means I’m not packing that clutter.

When you run your own business, it means there is even more paper to think about; receipts for write-offs, business expenses to keep track of, and, as a recipe writer – recipes!

That’s where the Neat Desk comes in. Neat Desk is not just a scanner – it promises to take everything you have piled on your desk: bills, business cards, and receipts, and turn them into digital records that are easily searchable, categorized, and organized in one spot on your computer.

Just imagine a paper-free desk. Thinking about that gives me a little thrill! Right now I’m all about cutting the clutter!

The NeatDesk comes with custom software that searches for keywords as it scans each document. It knows, for example, that a business card should be labeled as a contact, and that all the details on that business card will need to be put into a contact form. Those forms can then be exported out to your favorite mail program.

I’m also loving that I can scan in recipes I’ve written by hand, or printed, and keep them filed away for when I need inspiration. The Neat Desk software even recognizes ingredient names for a quick search.

Tax time has always been a nightmare for us, searching through baskets, bags, and purses of receipts, trying to get everything right. Thinking we’re done only to find a handful more of receipts in a drawer or cabinet somewhere.

The Neat Desk will put a stop to all that. As each receipt is scanned, it takes note of the merchant name, and the individual charges. All of this information is then exported into a tax program for me or stored as PDF or JPG files until we needs them.

I can then make notes that allow me to easily pull up everything household related, kid related, or even blog related when it comes time to file our taxes.

Want to simplify your taxes next year? Enter to win the Neat Desk system courtesy of The Neat Company!

Katie’s lifelong interest in cooking good food has shown her that part of the goodness in life is enjoying delicious food with friends and family.
She is: Mom. Writer. Photographer. Recipe Developer. Website Founder. Lover of all things good in life.
A mix of great recipes, family memories, and yummy photography is what Katie serves up each week at GoodLife Eats™. Katie and her family reside in Colorado.

I would loveeee one of these!! We have a pretty small home that is overflowing with paperwork!! We have our own business that is based out of our home, plus we have our own personal reciepts, personal paperwork, ect. One of these would be fantastic!!!

This item could soooo simplify my life. I share a desk with my husband and children, so keeping it clean and organized is a daily challenge. When I think of the paper that the NeatDesk could help me get rid of, my little heart beats faster!

Fabulous giveaway! I’m getting married soon so my fiance and I are combining all our things (and paperwork!) into a small condo. This would totally help us organized our new, shared files and do away with any clutter!!

Thats a great product! I homeschool a 6&8 year old….and I’m going to he finishing my bachelors degree, starting this fall. I could do soooooo much with that little product!!! Receipts and recipes would be first on my list though:)

Great Give-away, thanks. I would love to be able to scan in all the little stuff we have lying about and keep it in digital form. And I would love to have receipts for big things which will help with warranty info.

I would scan immunization forms, insurance paperwork, all vital records, college applications for my oldest, artwork from my youngest, pet records, etc. This aweseome and would make me sooooo organized:)

The receipts!! Oh my goodness, they have taken over my life. I so need to get better organized. If I don’t win this awesome system I’ll need to go out and buy it (the receipt will be the first one I scan!).

I need this so bad! My home office doubles as my sewing room, but right now it is so swamped with papers that need to be organized, I don’t even want to be in there. With a baby and a toddler, I just can’t find the time to get it all under control and I know it won’t stay that way for long even when I do. This would allow me to clean up my office and help me save money by tracking my receipts and spending better. And I’d be able to maximize my free time, working on craft projects and doing fun things with my kids without all that paperwork hanging over my head.

Between the receipts from my work expenses that collect in my wallet, and the file box full of old expenses that is in my car, paper is taking over my life. It would be amazing if I could scan my receipts, data sheets, forms, business cards, etc. and have them all in one place, not taking up any room other than encoded in my hard drive (and backed up out there in a cloud somewhere!).

This would help me in my constant crusade to organize, minimize, and streamline!!!

This would be INCREDIBLY helpful in trying to organize the thousands of pages of research I have for some articles I am writing. I have stacks of paper everywhere, and it’d be great to have it be electronic.

I could totally use this to clean up our pile of bills that need to be thrown away. We are soon moving to a much smaller place, and there is no room for piles of papers! What a lifesaver this would be!

I always have papers all over my desk at home, and it annoys me but I literally have nowhere to put them! The same goes for receipts. This would be so great so I could be organized and clear off some clutter!!

oh wow! To tame my paper monster, between 2 businesses, home, homeschool, medical, pets, and I could go on & on – I can’t even imagine! What benefit? Too many to even begin – I Would LOVE LOVE LOVE to win this!!!!!

Just keeping tract of the papers we get would be a big help, but mostly, I’d use it to record the estate information. I have stuff from both my grandmother and mother’s estates to store; having an electronic copy would make looking for information so much easier.

Wow, I do have a paper monster on my desk! This Neat Desk system will definitely helps me tidy up the piles of paperwork on my desk and make my life much easier especially for tax return next year! It toke me a while to gather and search for all the paper when I did my tax this year and it was a nightmare! Would love to have this Neat Desk System!

We are in DIRE need of a scanner and this small, fast one would be fabulous for organizing all of our paperwork! My husband’s in the military which means we move all the time and have lots of related paperwork. It would be great to condense the physical piles to nice electronic folders!!

I would love to scan all our medical receipts and keep that organized electronically. If we put it on a cloud drive then we could access those files anywhere at any of our doctor’s offices or at the pharmacy. Would be super helpful!

My husband owns his own business. Our office is cluttered with recipes, invoices, and all sorts and sizes of scrap papers. This scanner would restore some organization to our home office! Hooray for clean desks!

I saw a commercial for this one night and texted the website to myself to check out later. I NEED this to reorganize all the recipes and invoices and things that clutter my shelves. I’m all for getting rid of clutter.

I would love to use this to organize my personal finances, but this would also be absolutely perfect for organizing the handwritten recipes passed down from my family. They’re currently on notebooks or on loose pieces of paper, and I want to keep them in one place…

I would love to win this! Not really for myself but as a gift for my parents. My mom gets so annoyed the receipts and random papers all over the house, but my dad just can’t seem to part with anything lest they should one day need it. I think it would make both of their lives easier and they can finally stop complaining to me that my mom threw away something my dad needed or my dad piling ‘more junk’ on the kitchen counters! LOL Thanks for hosting this awesome giveaway!

This would definitely help me tame my paper monster. We have a lot of insurance statements for my son- they take up almost the entire top drawer of the file cabinet. This would help us safe space and be more organized.

We’re moving into an RV and I need to get rid of all these papers I’ve got all over the place. This would be perfect! As long as it still has digital file cabinets (which it appears to have) it will work for us. Whew!

What would I *not* organize?! This would be great for copying notes and little pieces of paper where I toss writing ideas but don’t really have a way to organize them other than stuffing a bunch in an envelope.
I’d organize all the little odd-sized news clippings I use, either recipes or articles for scrapbooking.
I’d organize all my business papers immediately instead of letting them pile up for a week before being handled.
I repeat: What would I *not* organize?!

As a band that is often traveling the country on tour, we’d be able to easily save our receipts, many insurance forms, and set lists for our fans. It would make it so much easier to create chord charts in songwriting and help with our graphic design work. We are The Empty Pockets and this indie rock band could really use the Neat Desk for our small business.

I have seen the commercials for these and have wanted one so bad! The organizing this would provide would be amazing, but I would start by scanning my recipes in. They are a mess and there are too many for me to think about typing in.

When other Moms dream of getting breakfast in bed or flowers for mother’s day….I dream about getting a Neat Desk! I’m sitting here with my desk covered in bills, receipts and recipes that clutter my space and my brain! Love the website!

To continue my effort of making me life more “green”, this would be a wonderful tool to eliminate paper use and clutter. I would use it for my bills/mail/recipes and children’s information. I am sure I can find a dozen other uses and green my home and life even more.

OMG this would help me so much! We are having a baby, and getting rid of my “office” so…with that said, I could scan everything into my computer and get rid of my bulky file cabinet!!! YAY:) Thanks for the giveaway.

It would revolutionize my daily life! Not just at tax time, but it would be a heaven-sent piece of equipment! How? FSA receipts – check, medical receipts – check, regular receipts – check……..I would be the ultimate power user of this!

I liked both GoodLife Eats and the Neat Company on Facebook. What a wonderful tool to cut down on paper. I can envision neater medical records, recipes, craft ideas, etc. with this wonderful machine. Thank you!

I NEEEEEED one of these, I have been looking at them for months but it never fits into an already tight budget. With 4 kids under 6, my school, work, a disabled mother for whom I handle all paperwork, plus stepdad’s paperwork including everything for his parents who passed this year and the uncle he takes care of (but I handle all the papers) I feel like I am buried in paper with about 7 filing cabinets and a constant flow of new paperwork this product would give me the time and space to actually be with my family instead of just in the same house with them.

I would love to use this not only to scan my receipts which just take up too much space when I keep them for records, but also recipe cards. I have a bunch that used to belong to my grandma that my mom has, and would love to have a copy of the original. This would be great!

My husband is a farmer, and when he goes to town for “parts” he comes home with a pocketful of receipts. Most of the time the receipts are crinkled, dirty, and covered in either motor oil, diesel fuel, manure, or all three (along with hay & straw, and pocket lint). YUCK! Who wants to file something like that (or even touch it, for that matter)? I NEED A NEAT DESK!!

This has been on my desire list forever as I am smothered in receipts and paper talk about taming a monster. Recently I moved my business home and I am working on due cluttering my life in a big way. This would be a blessing.

It would allow me to free up valuable real estate on my desk, in my bedroom, and bedroom closet. I keep everything ‘just in case’ and it’s driving me batty trying to find a place for everything. Everything from receipts to papers for school would be nicely put away without me having to remember where exactly I put it/them.

No only would I love this scanner… I NEED IT!!!
I have SO much paper in my little office (for my husbands business) (that is in my little living room… in my little house) It is just aweful and embarassing!!!
I’ve been looking at this scanner for a while now…but funds are workign againest us here.
I think it could really help me de-clutter some of this paper and re-claim my living room!
Thanks for the chance to maybe own one!

I’m DESPERATE for this! I have my own business and so does my husband…just seeing the mail man come gives me a slight facial tick. We are buried in mail, recipes, tax stuff, current clients & potential clients, children’s drawings, etc.! I cannot STAND a messy house so I feel stressed all the time to get things organized–this would be HUGE for us! Come on random.org!

On top of the need I have for scanning my business receipts (I run a landscaping company and have lots of invoices to keep up with!) I would use this for storing my ever growing pile of clipped, copied and printed recipes that are in a huge stack sitting on my kitchen shelf. Whenever I want to make something that has been “stored” in the stack, I have to thumb through the entire thing to find the one I am looking for!

I had no idea this company and products even existed. It is such a fabulous concept. I have put away paper into old copy paper boxes to be gone through and filed at a later date. My filing cabinets that I do have are falling apart on me. And my office papers are stacked in piles inside of my filing cabinets at work. I despise paper. I hated the fact that I moved all that paper to my new home two years ago. My goal is to get rid of paper before I ever have to move again. I’m not making much progress on that goal.

I’m following both of you on twitter and re-tweeted “I just entered to win a @NeatCompany Complete Neat Desk System from @goodlifeeats http://su.pr/1JRyqj #giveaway.” Here’s to hoping for a new Neat Desk!!!

We are a military family with two kids (currently, and hopefully more on their way in the near future). With moves, and having to store lots of paperwork for government things this would make our life so much easier! I also have a blog that I have not been able to keep up as much as I would like and this would help me to keep my ideas at my fingertips. Plus, we are planning on homeschooling starting next fall (with my then 2 year old) and this would make homeschooling so much more pleasant. It would also allow me to scan copies of their artwork to keep forever and not worry about it getting lost. This would be a HUGE blessing in my life!!!

I recently spent 3 days organizing my office sifting through years of paper. I can’t tell you how many tax deductions I’ve missed because I’ve lost the receipts. With Neatdesk, this wouldn’t happen! What an amazing organizational tool.

I am a housewife and my jobs includes: accounting, chef, planner, nurse and all the other jobs you can think of. I’ll take all the help I can get. The Neat would be like a personal assistant, it can help me better organized with shopping,cooking and filing. Thanks for the giveaway.

This system could change everything. I am an accounting student and have been helping several friends try to get their own business and non-profit organizations up and running. I have tackled shoe boxes of receipts and concept sketches on bar napkins…and I have loved every second so far. Having a system like this would let me keep everyone’s documentation separated and organized, and give me the professional edge I have been looking to bring to the table!

This machine would be so good for my life. At my house, my family has big, unorganized folders that hold all of our important papers. They need to be organized. Our receipts are so, so badly kept as well; I just shove them in my purse, which makes it very difficult to find them for bills. The thing I would like this for most though, is my recipes. I LOVE to cook and bake, and I have two big boxes with files of my recipes. I keep meaning to organize it, but I never have the time, and when I need a recipe, I could search for it for over an hour before finally giving up because it has been placed in the wrong spot. With this machine, I could just type the name into a search bar and have it pop up instantly. This would simplify my life so much!

I checked out Neat.com and would love one of these since I just started my own little “business” of making and selling purses. Right now I’ve got old-fashioned file folders, but I’d love to use one of these!!

Oh Wow!! I would love to win one of these! It would help to organize my life and taxes. It would allow me to say goodbye to the bags and boxes of receipts and papers! Woohoo!!
I would also love to have it to organize all of my teaching materials digitally!!

The Neat Desk would be a big help for us! We are a blended family with 6 young kids. Our home is small and crowded with many piles of school work, work papers, bank statements and such. It would be awesome to clear up this clutter and take our papers to be recycled. Thank you for this opportunity to win a Neat Desk!

I’ve moved many times in the last couple of years and I have another couple of moves on the horizon. There are so many receipts and records that I want to keep track of, but that’s hard when we keep changing locations. This would be perfect! Plus, cutting back on some of our paper would definitely simplify our moves.

I would use the neat desk to keep track of all my recipes and nutrition information. As a dietitian, I am getting recipes or healthy eating ideas all the time, and I just have tons of little pieces of paper.

We own our own biz, and it’s been a tough year – had to file an extension for our taxes. This NEAT system would help me help my DH see how we could quickly organize the data . . . and make better choices in the future.

It’s been a long time since I’ve entered any giveaways, but this one is worth the effort for me! Everything in my life right now is all about trying to tame some portion of our chaos. With 3 kids with special needs, a blog that is overwhelming me with stacks, boxes, piles and tote bags filled with recipes my house is overrun. Add to the amounts of recipes, all the notes about the kids, schoolwork, and medical records and papers, evaluations, etc. running around and I am literally drowning is a sea of disorganized piles every where. None of it is really stuff I can just get rid of at this point since I at least made it that far in my dejunking, so now I’ve had the Neat System on my wish list for a while. It could very well be the thing that saves my life. Sounds overly dramatic I know, but seriously, I’m not even exaggerating. So, that’s why I’m making the effort to enter a contest for once. I’ve got my fingers crossed! Thanks for putting this together!

My family is a big batch of paper hoarders. The Neat Desk could help us rid ourselves of the stacks and boxes and cabinets full of paper that just “has” to be kept. Plus, having The Neat Desk just might keep us off of reality tv (Hoarding Buried Alive)

How could it NOT help me? My paperwork is a mess right now, and being able to scan receipts would be priceless right now. And I have about a million recipes that I would love to be able to scan and then the search function? I think that’s what makes this system priceles!!

The Neat Desk System would help simplify my life immensely since we have a handicapped relative that lives with us and her medical paperwork is a nightmare to manage. Thanks so much for the contest. Love your blog!

Wow, what an amazing product! I work with a Direct Sales company and have tons of paperwork that just starts taking over even when it’s organized into folders. The Neat Desk would be so helpful for keeping my records digitally and saving a ton of space.

My home office is buried in paperwork. I would love to be able to scan the documents and have a digital file of them and clear the clutter! (My hubby would especially love for me to win this as he likes everything “neat and clean”.)

My boyfriend and I both cook for a living, so we have boxes and boxes and binders of recipes and notes cluttering up multiple rooms in our house. We have been looking for a good way to organize them for a long time. This would be perfect!

This would be ideal for our business documents, school stuff, and general household paperwork. My desk always has a pile of papers I need to “file”. This would help get them off the desk and stored for later use!

I have a special needs child and can’t leave papers around or he destroys them. It’s always agonizing to try to file things before he gets to them. This would be so great to scan things as soon as they come in the house and not worry about them being lost-and-gone-forever! I could go back and deal with them on the computer as my time allows!

We own our own business, and at “tax time”, I go through every receipt to determine if there are items that are deductible. Too many times I’ve run across receipts that have faded out and its almost impossible to read them. I know this would help me out greatly, actually it would help anybody out greatly!!! What an awesome giveaway!!!

My husband and I recently went through a file cabinet that has been moved across several states, gathering paper over several years. It was incredible what we found, and then I started getting anxious about how many important papers were just mixed up in everything. I would love to be able to simply make digital copies of everything. Also, I can see this being extremely helpful keeping track of receipts-better than my envelope system!

We like to keep receipts for items we might need for a item under warranty, and other various purchases. But it seems we can never put our fingers on them easily when we need it and spend hours looking for it. Having them filed electronically would be a time saver.

As a home daycare provider this would change my life! I have to keep track of health records, contracts, licenses, training hours, receipts for taxes and then keep all these things on file for years. I’ve only been a provider for two years but I can’t imagine what my file cabinet will look like in a couple more. Thanks for introducing me to the Neat Desk and a chance to win one.

I have a drawer in my desk where I keep all my receipts and other important paperwork. I keep telling myself that I should scan all of that to PDF to help keep it organized, and the Neat Desk seems like the perfect tool to finally get me to actually do it. Fingers crossed that I win this, as I desperately need it.

I have been coveting one of these since I first saw them. I would love to be able to get rid of almost all my paper clutter in my house. I’d first tackle the filing cabinet I have upstairs then move on to the one in my basement.

I shared both the Neat Desk & Good Life Eats on Facebook. Food is my passion and being able to organize all the papers that I deal with for our farming business & for my mother-in-law who is in a nursing home, could free up so much of my time for more enjoyable task.

I have been eyeing the NEAT system for quite some time & am so excited you’re doing a give-away. My husband calls me a closet hoarder as our office is literally overflowing w/ so much paper/receipts/bill stubs/etc. that you can’t find a thing. It was so unorganized I lost a $5000 check in there for 3 mos! Our lives would be so simplified by having this system. I love it!

Oh my goodness, I would love this system! I signed up for a receipt scanning program online that started at $9/month – then they started jacking the price up (without notice) until it hit $29/month, and then I discovered their online storage system didn’t allow for categorization or importing into my finance program – ack! It’s so awesome that they have Mac *and* Windows versions, too!

The NEAT Desk might save my life. I’m drowning in paper of my own, my job, and my other organizations… this could be the answers to all my prayers! I want to scan and organize every paper and receipt — how genius!

I’d use it to scan all the loose recipes I have stacked up. I have tons, all just piled and stapled and paperclipped together. I’d put them all on my computer so I could free up so much space on my desk!!!

If it would mean the end of desk papers, count me in. I can spend hours sorting and filing but I never seem to get to bottom of the papers, the neat- desk would let me throw away things! Can’t get better than that.

Oddly enough, my husband and I were just talking about the Neat Desk not too long ago. After watching him shuffle through a year’s worth of receipts and bills for his business we started looking at the different options out there. I’m so glad that there are people who designed better ways to organize everything in your life! I would love to get our lives organized digitally…the paper piles are getting a bit out of hand, not to mention all the manilla envelopes that pile up year after year. We would so love this!

Oh wow, this would help me eliminate about 3/4 of the paper in my house. Between papers for my work, receipts for the two businesses, and all the kids papers from school, it becomes overwhelming. Something like this where I could scan in those important papers and all receipts would be awesome. I hope I win. Thanks for offering the giveaway.

This would help me tremendously elimianate paper clutter. I have stacks of paper lying around because I’m not sure if I need to keep it – therefore, it never makes it to the filing cabinet . I’ve been wanting one of these awesome machines for a long time ! Thanks for a great giveaway.

Oh my gosh-I have piles here and piles there-boxes of papers in every spot. This would be so great-I am afraid to throw any receipt/paid bill out but I would never know how to find a specific one if I was asked.

I absolutely need this! I have 3-month old twins and a 2 year old in a 2-bedroom tiny apartment and we could use all of the organization methods possible! It would help me get rid of all of this clutter! Have had my eye on this for so long, but it’s just not in the budget!

I really do want one of these–I do the bills for the entire family (everybody else works and/or is completely uninterested in making certain everything gets paid on time), so I end up with various receipt and forms that belong to different families. This would make it so much easier to keep track of everything.

The NeatDesk would reorganize me as I have boxes, and I mean boxes, of receipts everywhere. I’m too afraid to throw them away. This would be a perfect storage option. My husband would be thrilled.
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This is amazing! I have wanted something like the Neat Desk for a long time. The copier at school sends pdfs to e-mail and I can save them and so on but it wil only do 1 page at a time. A 10 page document is 10 e-mails and that’s just nuts. The Neat Desk would be absolutely fantastic for lesson plans and meeting notes. As a special education teacher and math teacher I have way too much paperwork that just doesn’t need to be paper; it could be a nice, neat computer file, completely clutter free. Of course then my students won’t be able to tell me, “Hey Ms. Matteucci, it looks like your desk exploded.” It’s hard to keep reminding them about neat binders with papers in the proper places when it looks like a whirlwind hit my desk. High school students are quick to catch on to double standards.

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